Author: Bingham, Peregrine
Biography:
BINGHAM, Peregrine (1753-1826: ODNB)
The second son of the Rev. George Bingham, an antiquary who died in 1800, and his wife Sarah Beale (d 1756), he was born at Pimperne, Dorset, where his father was the rector. Bingham was baptised in Pimperne on 25 Apr. 1753. He became a scholar at Winchester School in 1765 and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, on 15 Mar. 1771 before going to New College (BCL 1780, Fellow 1774-87). He was ordained a deacon in 1776 and a priest in 1777 and became the chaplain on HMS Agincourt. He was made rector of Stoke Wake, Dorset, in 1778; Edmonsham, Dorset, in 1781; Radclive, Lincolnshire, in 1786; and finally of Berwick St. John, Wiltshire, in 1817. On 2 May 1787 in Shaftsbury, Dorset, he married Amy Bowles (a sister of William Lisle Bowles, q.v.). They had two sons; one of them, Peregrine, became a legal writer. In 1804 Peregrine Bingham senior contributed a prefatory memoir and published the Rev. George Bingham’s Dissertations, Essays, and Sermons; this led to two further books where he defended his father against complaints by the Rev. Mr Marsh, rector of Long-Critchill, Dorset. In May 1826 he was travelling with his wife when a spring in their gig broke; he was thrown out and suffered a fractured skull which caused his death on 28 May. He was buried at Berwick St. John on 5 June. (C. L. Shadwell, Registrum Orielense; findmypast.co.uk 15 Apr. 2023; ancestry.co.uk 15 Apr. 2023, 24 Dec. 2024; ODNB 15 Apr. 2023; Belfast Commercial Chronicle 14 June 1826) SR